Total, fluorescent, and pectolytic epiphytic bacterial population sizes were quantified on leaves of different age groups of broad-leaved endive during field cultivation from leaf emergence until harvest. Greater bacterial population densities (log(inf10) CFU per square centimeter) were observed on outer leaves than on inner leaves of the plants throughout the growing season. These differences ...

Megalocytic anaemia in childhood is an unusual disease in The Netherlands. Routine examination of the bone marrow of anaemic patients rarely reveals the existence of this type, and is probably due to an adequate number of clinics, which give advice to the majority of the mothers on the infant's diet during the first year of life. The continued functioning of these clinics during the German occu...